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Re: [Qemu-devel] disk image: self-organized format or raw file


From: Richard W.M. Jones
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] disk image: self-organized format or raw file
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 21:14:55 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10)

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 03:23:38PM -0400, Xingbo Wu wrote:
> would be very space efficient for distribution :).
> Would you consider replace xz with lz4? it has faster decompression speed
> (~500MB/s)[1] and client-side decompression would be made painless.

No.  The main benefit of xz is it has a well defined stable API and a
file format that supports seeking.

Rich.

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